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Line 10: After the discovery of gold at [[Sutter's Fort]], Swift took a party to [[Bidwell's Bar, California\|Bidwell's Bar]] in 1848 and struck it rich. A fellow miner recalls, "Swift was one of the best miners I ever knew. It seems as if he could almost smell the gold. He made an immense amount of gold." With his newfound wealth, Swift, his brother William, and his cousin [[Frank Sears]] first purchased the ranch they had been working, and later purchased 15,000 acres (61 km<sup>2</sup>) of [[Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo]]'s [[Rancho Petaluma]], located near [[Sears Point]]. In 1858 he constructed his three-story Southern [[Antebellum architecture\|antebellum]]-style mansion, called ~~Telemec~~Temelec, on the rancho. The first two floors had 14 rooms, while the dining room could seat as many as 50 guests and featured a fireplace of imported Italian [[marble]]. It also had an encircling balcony supported by great stone columns. Swift also buried an estimated $100,000 in gold. The list of his burial locations (in his handwriting) still survives, with notations like "1 tin box & 1 Little Bottle Boath in the saim hoal." He was later unable to identify many of the hiding places; gold believed to have been Swift's has been found several times, including in 1914 by A.W. Lehrke, who dug under his ranch house after a dream. Rich and famous, he married 16-year-old Eliza Jane Tate of Sonoma. Together they had three sons before their divorce in 1869. However, his fortunes would soon take a turn for the worse. He suffered serious financial losses in the so-called [[Comstock Swindle]], forcing him to sell off his ranch and ~~Telemec~~Temelec to pay his debts. In 1850, $80,000 in gold that his sister had panned was washed away by the creek near which Swift had buried it. The family then moved to [[Solano County, California\|Solano County]] in 1864, settling in [[Green Valley, Solano County, California\|Green Valley]]. The stone mansion they purchased today houses the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051119041921/http://greenvalleycc.com/home.htm Green Valley Country Club]. Swift returned to prospecting, this time for [[mercury (element)\|quicksilver]] in the mountains between [[Berryessa Valley]] and [[Knoxville, California\|Knoxville]], but on April 21, 1875, at the age of 54, he was riding on a mule and suffered a fatal fall on a steep mountain path. He is buried at Rockville Cemetery in [[Suisun, California\|Suisun]].

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